One
would be hard-pressed to select the most corrupt Presidential administration
in US history. Over time, both Democrat and Republican administrations
have a track record littered with all kinds of corruption, scandal,
malfeasance, dishonesty, and unconstitutional conduct. Out of all
of them, only two Presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson and
Bill Clinton, both Democrats. Neither of them were convicted of the
charges and removed from office. A third President, Republican Richard
Nixon, would almost certainly have been impeached had he not resigned
first.

Andrew
Johnson’s impeachment was doubtless the most politically-motivated
impeachment of a President in US history. He was impeached by radical
Republicans who were angry at Johnson’s mild and temperate approach
to reconstruction after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and surrender
of Southern forces. Specifically, Johnson was impeached for violating
the Tenure of Office Act in 1867, which forbade the President from
dismissing office holders without the Senate’s approval. The
Act was ruled unconstitutional in 1926.

Bill
Clinton’s impeachment was based on four charges: grand jury
perjury, civil suit perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of
power. There seems little doubt that Clinton was guilty of the charges,
but a timid GOP Senate leadership had no stomach to be the first Congress
in US history to convict and remove a sitting President from office.

Charges
that would have been brought against Richard Nixon had he not resigned,
included illegal wiretapping, misuse of the CIA, perjury, bribery,
and obstruction of justice.

However,
the truth of the matter is if every President who deserved to be impeached
and removed from office had been indeed impeached and removed from
office, it would have included a good number of them. In my humble
opinion, that list would have included Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and G.W. Bush--and now Barack Obama.

Never
mind the fact that had the media and congressional leaders objectively
and thoroughly examined Obama’s birth certificate, it would
have been easily proven that the documents were forged and that he
was totally unqualified to be President of the United States. But
setting that aside, the scandals of this White House certainly rise
to the level of the US Constitution’s grounds for impeachment,
which is “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Here
is a list of the Obama White House scandals which is publicly known:

•
The “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation, whereby
federal government agencies deliberately and willfully supplied untold
numbers of firearms to known Mexican drug-traffickers, which led to
the death of at least one Border Patrol agent.

•
Using the IRS as a political weapon against conservative groups.

Now,
if one thinks that Obama invented this diabolical tool, one is sadly
mistaken. Ron Paul recently noted that the IRS has been used as a
strong-armed bully to harass and intimate political opponents under
several Presidential administrations, including the Kennedy, Nixon,
Clinton, and G.W. Bush administrations.

The
Washington Times quotes Dr. Paul as saying, “‘The bipartisan
tradition of using the IRS as a tool to harass political opponents
suggests that the problem is deeper than just a few “rogue”
IRS agents--or even corruption within one, two, three or many administrations,’
Dr. Paul writes in his weekly column, Texas Straight Talk. ‘Instead,
the problem [lies] in the extraordinary power the tax system grants
the IRS.’

“The
libertarian and tea party hero goes on to argue that the power of
the IRS can only be countered with a complete overhaul to the country’s
tax system.”

Barack
Obama is only the latest President who is known to have used the power
of the IRS as an abusive force against political opponents.

•
The stand-down of military troops and cover-up of the attacks by Muslim
extremists against the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

The
Obama administration doesn’t want the American public to know
that the US was using the Benghazi annex to store and supply weapons
to Syrian jihadists and that it was competing Muslim extremists who
stole the arms stored there. And, of course, there is the burning
question as to why American forces were ordered to stand-down and
not interfere with the attack which led to the deaths of the US Ambassador
and three other Americans that has not been answered.

Obviously,
many US Presidents have used duplicity, deceit, and chicanery to hide
the truth of US foreign entanglements from the American people in
order to accomplish a personal or political agenda. Johnson did it
in Vietnam; George H.W. Bush did it in Kuwait; and G.W. Bush did it
in Iraq. Now Barack Obama is following suit in Libya, Syria, and elsewhere.

•
Associated Press telephone records seized without a warrant.

Suddenly
now, the media is alarmed to discover that their darling Barack Obama
has actually turned the monster of oppressive government against THEM.
Egad! As long as the federal government is only illegally spying on
average-Joe American, the media is nonchalant and unconcerned. However,
now that it has been discovered that the federal government is spying
on the members of the media, they are enraged--well, somewhat enraged.

Hey
folks! When it comes to the all-time champion of using the power of
the federal government to spy on Americans, G.W. Bush, not Barack
Obama, takes the blue ribbon. Everything that Obama is now using to
spy on reporters and average citizens was taken from the blueprint
designed by G.W. Bush. It was Bush who championed the Patriot Act;
it was Bush who championed the Military Commissions Act; it was Bush
who championed the Department of Homeland Security; and it was Bush
(and now Obama) who championed the NDAA.

But
now that the federal government has specifically targeted members
of the media in its illegal spying activities, media talking-heads
are aghast. Even Mr. Big Government, himself, Piers Morgan, is publicly
re-thinking his rabid gun-control agenda. Morgan recently said this:

“Though
I was appalled by the media’s relentless and shameless push
last month to pass the Toomey-Manchin bill that would have tightened
background checks, I did support its passage, and said so many times
while criticizing the media for their disgusting behavior. But this
chilling reminder of how corrupt the federal government is has changed
my mind completely.”

Now
all of a sudden, anti-gun Piers Morgan says that gun-rights advocates
who refuse to surrender their firearms because they distrust the federal
government are NOT crazy after all. Amazing!

•
Sexual assaults in the military.

This
scandal received public notoriety when two military officers were
discovered sexually abusing female subordinates after having been
put in positions of authority assigned with the duty of PREVENTING
those very crimes. Of course, Barack Obama feigned total shock and
disgust at the revelation.

Noted
researcher and investigative analyst, Joel Skousen, covered this story
in his last World Affairs Brief. Skousen quotes Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-NY) as saying, “We have arguably 26,000 [sexual] assaults
a year, but only about 3,000 are even reported, and only a handful
go to trial and result in conviction.”

Of
course, the problem of sexual assault in the military is not a new
one. It has gradually been getting worse as Presidential administrations
(from both major parties) insisted on putting women in close-quarters
with men on ships, as well as in ground units. But Barack Obama has
exacerbated the problem even further by putting women in combat units.

Yes,
folks, Obama’s campaign for change has turned out to be nothing
more than business as usual. If the Obama Presidency is not the most
corrupt in American history, it is surely one of the most corrupt.

Perhaps,
the most honest man in recent memory to run as a major party candidate
for President of the United States was Republican Congressman Ron
Paul; but I guess honesty is not a qualification which most people
desire anymore. So, we are left with the likes of G.W. Bush and Barack
Obama. One would think that sooner or later the American people would
tire of all of these scandalous shysters and want to elect an honest
man. One would think.

Chuck
Baldwin is a syndicated columnist, radio broadcaster, author, and
pastor dedicated to preserving the historic principles upon which
America was founded. He was the 2008 Presidential candidate for the
Constitution Party. He and his wife, Connie, have 3 children and 8
grandchildren. Chuck and his family reside in the Flathead Valley of
Montana. See Chuck's complete bio here.

Bill
Clinton’s impeachment was based on four charges: grand jury perjury,
civil suit perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power. There
seems little doubt that Clinton was guilty of the charges, but a timid
GOP Senate leadership had no stomach to be the first Congress in US
history to convict and remove a sitting President from office.